Dear Alan and Forumites,

I think I should know this already, but I don't:

If a player wants to suggest a word, I know that there's the Word List Suggestions page to check. But is there another 'master' list to check to see if the word in question has already been in- or ex-cluded?

For example, whenever I see 'true' as a possibility, I want to use 'trued' and/or 'truing', using true as a verb, meaning to adjust so as to make true. It's not on the Suggestions list, but I'm hesitant to suggest it in case I've failed to check some other list, and I'm just being annoying.

nineoaks

Well, Alan, the New Year has already come to you while we wait here on the Californian coast, getting ready with our sighs of relief as 2020 fades away.

As everyone has said: Thanks so much for bringing us such a wonderful game. The Challenge Game waiting for me at morning coffee time is a daily pleasure I owe to you!

All Best Wishes!!!

re: sweary

Yes, please...

Ah, yes, Jingle Bells.

As a former Kindergarten teacher, I can tell you that Jingle Bells is a FAVORITE song, probably because of its rollicking pace and the chance to sing the chorus LOUDLY.

But, hearing it in the shops every November -January...torture.

Because we almost never hear any but the first verse, few of us know that it's a song about high-spirited courting-age young people getting a chance to ride unchaperoned through the snowy landscape. The second verse is:

A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side,
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot.

A tumble in the snow--what an opportunity!


Even more rare is the 'Little Deuce Coupe' of 1854:

Now the ground is white
Go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight
and sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bobtailed bay
Two forty is his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead.

However, most appropriate for Chihuahua is:

    Aussie Jingle Bells

    Dashing through the bush, in a rusty Holden ute,
    Kicking up the dust, esky in the boot,
    Kelpie by my side, singing Christmas songs,
    It's Summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts and thongs

    Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
    Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
    Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
    Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden ute.

Happy Holidays (wear your earplugs when you shop!)

I guess, Jacki, your post is directed at me.

I'll just say that, as Pat has pointed out, I did not make up a word.

I only created a phrase which I thought illustrated a possible usage of the word under discussion.

As I could now, for example, write, 'Behold, Ennéa Valanidiés seated beside the stream, weeping, beclad in the scarlet cloak of shame, beseeching the gods for forgiveness for her hubristic act of creation.'

re: beclad

Sorry, Alan, I made it up.

nineoaks

Career/careen both familiar to me.

Mateship/Mazy both unknown to me.